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Feeding Your Gadget and Tech ObsessionsSun, 02 Aug 2015 22:30:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: Zebelioushttp://www.slashgear.com/nsa-marina-metadata-tracking-hoards-online-social-lives-of-millions-30299638/#comment-311552
Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:56:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=299638#comment-311552Well before the whole NSA thing came to surface, regardless my long distant call’s destination I always asked for a moment to say hi to all the listerners first. My friends and families thought I was crazy.
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Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:30:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=299638#comment-311549That’s a bullshit excuse. If the NSA truly does have software algorithms that search for questionable online behavior, those 2 Muslim boys would have set off hundreds of alarms. The fact that the Russians gave a tip, is just icing on the cake. During a terrorist threat, the agencies collaborate. Do you have more sad excuses, NSA front man?
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Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:27:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=299638#comment-311548Regarding the Boston, the Russians warned the FBI which is totally independent entity from NSA.
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Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:23:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=299638#comment-311547They said that if they come across illegal activity, they forward it to local police departments. Also, why weren’t the Boston Bombers stopped? That was a terrorist act. Even the Russians warned the US about Tsarnayevs.
]]>By: Zebelioushttp://www.slashgear.com/nsa-marina-metadata-tracking-hoards-online-social-lives-of-millions-30299638/#comment-311546
Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:21:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=299638#comment-311546If I may I’ll try to answer that question in my best of understandings. NSA’s main job is not crime prevention, as you suggested, whereas intelligence gathering is. The gathered data in return is given and even sold to other organisations for even more menace purposes. The followings are some of the objectives;

1. Sabotage: To change the course of an event or to totally dismounting it.

2. Civil Unrest Prevention: An extremely worrying fact for any democratically elected government that promote democracy by military or other illegal means.

3. Economy: Negotiation would be advantageous when one knows what cards others have.

4. Political: Same as above

5. Dirt Digging: This applies to all citizens where it would be used for intimidation, defaming, and vilification.

NSA powered by Tax Dollars.

Writing this post reminded me of a book I read few years ago and I like to share an extract (from preface section) of it with other readers too. This extract was actually written in another book (Conscience of an Economic Hit Man) of the same author (John Perkins) in 1982 that was re-referenced in his 2004 book called “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”

“Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. I should know; I was an EHM.” — John Perkins, “Confessions of an Economy Hit Man”, 2004